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The idea of activists/politicians having any say in who companies hire disgusts me. The average person might thing of them as professional useless people. But a
by elektrontamer 4y ago
The idea of activists/politicians having any say in who companies hire disgusts me. The average person might thing of them as professional useless people. But as someone who lives in a somewhat corrupt country, I fear it's far more sinister.
Here, after every government change, public worker positions and state universities tend to get filled with by the winner with their incompetent cronies. But the private sector is relatively safe. When you bring in DEI positions you're just creating new opening for the politicians/activists to exert control over the private sector as well.
- poszlem 4y agoI don't understand why anybody would be against having political commissars at their place of work. Did we not learn from Soviet Russia that those work great?
- kneebonian 4y agoI recently read an interesting book called "Ivan's War" that is an in depth look at WW2 from the Soviet side that extensively draws on 1st hand sources. One of the things I found so interesting was that much of the Soviet framework was built upon ensuring you couldn't trust anyone, putting spies amongst military units to rat on their comrades, splitting apart units that had served together for a while, etc. The whole point wasn't to control thought, or stamp out disloyalty it was merely to make each person feel like they were alone and isolated. I have to wonder how much of some of these culture war issues have been brought into corporations in order to prevent the workers from organizing.
- scottiebarnes 4y agoThe idea of activists/politicians having any say in who companies hire disgusts me But does it disgust you when companies discriminate based on age/gender/sexual orientation/race/disability/religion/etc? Should corporations be accountable to society in some way, or do we trust them to "do the right thing"?
- kneebonian 4y agoIsn't that already illegal to discriminate based on most of those things?
- Volundr 4y agoIt's illegal to do a lot of things. That doesn't mean they don't happen or aren't common.
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- mattnewton 4y agoIt’s illegal not to file your taxes but companies still hire accountants to make sure they do it, and also use strategies above and beyond the minimum prescribed by the law that benefit the company. Seems to make sense that DEI departments could fill a similar role - make sure the company is in compliance with the law and then look for ways to go above and beyond it that benefit the company’s position in the market for talent.
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- brodouevencode 4y agoIn the US there are already laws against this. The company doesn't need DEI positions to enforce this.
- scottiebarnes 4y agoThe law punishes overt instances of discrimination. I can hire all of x gender, x race, x religion, etc. for my 1000 employee work force. You won't legally be able to nail any kind of discrimination on me so long as I take care as to not leave evidence of it. In this instance, did discrimination occur? Did the law do its job adequately?
- sophacles 4y agoThe idea that companies get special liability rules disgusts me. I think you should be able to hire whoever you want, but you get to carry the entirety of responsibility for your actions. Either the buck stops with you, or you accept conditions.